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Higher Education Community & Partnerships Manager

2 hours, 19 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Partnerships Manager
Sales and Business Development
Figma
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Figma

Figma

Figma provides a collaborative web application for interface design that enables users to seamlessly design, prototype, and gather feedback in real time, while also offering additional offline capabilities through desktop applications for macOS and Win...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
$333M raised
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Description

  • Build and grow an educator community across top university and bootcamp programs.
  • Drive curriculum integration by partnering with educators on teaching resources, assignments, and course packs.
  • Work with university technology centers to promote Figma’s free education program to incoming students.
  • Cultivate relationships with deans, department chairs, program leaders, and other institutional decision-makers.
  • Lay the foundation for Figma’s institutional growth strategy in higher education.
  • Design and launch professor programming, events, resources, and community activations.
  • Collaborate closely with the broader Figma EDU team to align institutional and student programs.
  • Track adoption, engagement, and relationship depth across partnerships and use data to iterate.
  • Develop relationships with professors, instructors, technology centers, and program leadership at leading design schools, HCI programs, and bootcamps.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in academic partnerships, faculty engagement, higher ed community programs, or institutional relationship management.
  • Demonstrated success influencing university leadership, including deans, department chairs, and technology center directors.
  • Experience building programs or communities from scratch with limited resources and no defined playbook.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging for academic and institutional audiences.
  • A scrappy, entrepreneurial approach and comfort operating in ambiguous, resource-constrained environments.
  • Experience as an educator or working directly within a university setting (preferred).
  • Familiarity with design education, HCI programs, or creative disciplines (preferred).
  • Experience working at a high-growth tech company or startup (preferred).
  • Background in community building and education marketing (preferred).
  • Familiarity with sales or business development in an institutional or academic context (preferred).
  • This is a full-time role that can be held from one of Figma’s US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $105,000 to $221,000 USD, depending on location and experience.
  • Equity for employees.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement plan with company contribution.
  • Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support.
  • Mental health and wellness benefits.
  • Generous PTO and company recharge days.
  • Learning and development stipend, work-from-home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.

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